Yes, it is a form of extortion. But that's the free market for you. Besides, the curse will prove the efficacy of my powers, and when I am paid to remove it and do so I will prove that I am a man of my word. After that I expect my offers of spells for hire will be taken more seriously.

But that is neither here nor there. I offer you a chance for investment, something to improve the entire bitcoin community as well as your own portfolio. Not just financial gain, but gain in esteem in the eyes of your fellows.

It is not exactly an "investment" but if you wish to help remove the curse it will perhaps help your assets in the long run.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110513.msg1203036#msg1203036

I will point out that things continue to get worse for the bitcoin world. You have two and a half more days to pay me my bounty of 15 BTC. After Monday it will increase to 20.

I have received a donation, but since the giver stated that he wished for the curse's power to increase, I cannot count it toward the curse removal fee. Any others who wish to show appreciation for the curse are certainly welcome to donate as well. Just clearly indicate whether the BTC are in appreciation of the curse or for its removal so that I know where things stand.

If you actually knew anything about magic/witchcraft you would realize that asking me to reveal my method and ritual would be the height of foolishness. Of course, if you were able to practice it yourself you would be able to find out on your own.

But yes, please, continue your posturing and joking even as the bitcoin world begins to crumble around you. You will realize the truth eventually, but by then it may be too late.

I am happy to receive either enjoyment from BTC or from the suffering of members of this forum. Both are a "blessing" for me.

Edit: You will note that the effects of the curse have already begun. You are all very foolish to have ignored it and things will go very badly for you and the world of bitcoin in the near future.

Attention Bitcoin Talk community. You have scorned my services and laughed off my threats, but starting on this day you will see that I am not a man to trifled with. I have spent the last hour consorting with dark spirits giving them such offerings as they desire and gaining their service. Now the ritual is complete and this forum is cursed.  I shall not tell you the specifics of the ritual nor of the spirits at my behest lest one among you seek to counter it, but understand that it is very powerful and you shall soon see its affects right here in the forums.

I am still willing to undo the curse, but it will now cost you 15 BTC to do so, and an extra 5 BTC per week until it reaches the maximum of 100 BTC. By then, of course, it may be too late for many of you to secure your assets or recoup such losses as breaches on your security will have entailed.

Please note that I am still offering the services listed in the original post.

Please note that I will accept the 10 BTC piecemeal from multiple sources and I will accurately report all that are given. Perhaps Theymos can be convinced to consider this a donation to the forum itself with appropriate rewards for those who give.


There are four hours left. I suggest that you act before I set the forces in motion.

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There is now approximately 19 hours until the deadline. I have so far received 0 BTC. I promise you that I am a man of my word and that I will use the strongest curse I know to bring down misfortune upon this forum and its posters. It is unfortunate that newbies will suffer as well but that is simply a matter of bad luck. I can say that the more you post here or are involved with this forum the more you will suffer, although those will low post count will also face hardship.

It is not too late to avert this disaster.

Edit: please note that I am aware of the BFL concerns and will be making special mention of them in my dealings with the agents of darkness. Those of you with pre-orders who wish to see them fulfilled should take note.

There is now less than 48 hours before I will perform my ritual. I have received 0 coins. PLEASE NOTE: Your donation will come with a free blessing for yourself REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE 10 BTC THRESHOLD IS MET.

This will mitigate the effect of the curse upon yourself.

I am becoming concerned that members of this forum are not taking this seriously. I will accept 10 btc to forego the curse up until Monday. Once the curse is actually in place, the fee will go up by 5 btc per day to remove it (mainly because this will mean another involved ritual). It is well worth your while to pay now, as once the curse is in place the negative affects plus added fee charge will cost you a great deal more in the long run.

New offer: if I don't receive a donation of 10 BTC by noon US mountain time on Monday the 24th, I will call upon the dark powers and curse this forum.

Likely results of a curse:

increase in number of bugs and crashes.

greater governmental surveillance.

hackers.

deletion of important user information.

Possible results:

health problems for forum staff and users.

Bad luck for the same.

Server crash and massive information loss.

Please donate BTC to address in my signature.

Also, I will perform a general blessing for a donation of BTC, stronger blessings for more bitcoins. These blessings have many benefits. You will see improvement in your life.

It would be redundant.
Please address questions of pricing to my PM box. This is for serious inquiries only.


it is posssible a blessing could help with this, please PM me for specifics

Edit: Due to the scorn heaped upon me, I have levied a curse upon Bitcoin. I will accept donations to remove the curse, but the necessary amount will increase over time.

Curse removal cost is currently: 200 BTC

Please note that this amount can come from multiple sources. I will keep a running tally of the amount I receive.

Amount received to date: 0 BTC

I also still offering the services listed below.

I have practiced/studied witchcraft for nearly a decade and am well versed in the many forms of blessings and curses. For a BTC donation I will perform a ritual spell to either curse your enemies or bless yourself. Possible uses include:

Blessings:

Money spell: you will receive money over the course of a month (find $100 bills in the street!)
Lovespell: make a person infatuated with you. Short or long term (short term is more powerful/intense but has drawbacks)
Good fortune: good things will happen to you for a duration of your choice


Curses:

body odor: your enemy will smell bad
bad luck: bad things will happen to your enemy like a car could hit him or maybe he will lose his credit card
Hostility: animals and people will both find the enemy unpleasant and will growl at him or get into arguments
betrayal: your enemy's significant other will cheat on him or maybe a close friend will turn on him

These are just examples of the kind of witchcraft available. There are others as well, just ask!

Please note that these are all real spells and that witchcraft is unpredictable. For the donation I will perform the magic ritual as described in the texts and summon the energy to cause the desired effect. THERE WILL BE AN EFFECT FROM THE SPELL BUT IT MAY BE WEAKER OR STRONGER THAN INTENDED

Prices range from 1-100 BTC depending on effect desired.

I'm seeing a lot of bullshit negative chatter in this thread from people who *want* dank to fail. Screw them, Dank, there are always going to be people like that, but if you know in your heart of hearts that this is your path, nobody will ever stop you. 

Well, I don't see the point in linking to anything specific as there are so many in so many places that I have to question if you're asking about it whether you've actually been reading the forums, but for instance, look at the Patrick thread in long term offers where most of his time is wasted in replying to people who are just happy to throw the word "SCAM" around like it's nothing just because he offers a good interest rate. It's basically become the forum equivalent of the frivolous lawsuit around here and the same way that those need to be cracked down upon in the US the scam calling needs to be cracked down on here. IMHO of course.

Well, my thought is that most of the real "scams" have already gone away and nobody is likely to try that kind of thing again. Instead we just have a bunch of people yelling "SCAM" at some innocent investors  that got caught in the wake of pirate and so forth. Pirate is already gone and all the people accusing others of scamming are just hurting bitcoin, so why not a crack down on baseless accusations?

I've been reading about bitcoin for most of the summer and lurking a bit here. It's pretty different now than how it was a few months ago mainly due to the pirate stuff and what not (which, it seems to me is responsible for most of the other high yield programs going down at the same time). All I know is that if I had started reading bitcoin stuff here now instead of earlier in the summer I would be pretty turned off and I think that's a shame because it's a great idea thats getting dragged through the mud because of some bad apples.

Regarding JoelKatz's post: it makes me think of Giulliani's New York. The first thing he did is get the homeless and the criminals out of New York and times square to make it more welcoming to tourists. Couldn't this site be thought of as a "times square"? It's one of the first places that people see when they visit. Maybe getting the bad and ugly stuff off site would help with bitcoin overall.

I can understand all of this. But I still think it should be somehow limited as it seems these days everyone is very quick to cry out "SCAM" at any opportunity and it starts to make it look bad around here. Maybe a warning-ban system to stop the more obvious trolls like Micon and others who go into so many marketplace threads and start derailing them as soon as they can.

Because this site gives people one of their first understandings of what bitcoin is. If you go to the Coca Cola site, you don't see them list every law suit that they are involved with and every accusation against them having unhealthful products where everyone can see it. The people at coca cola who need to know about those things do and they deal with them where they belong, in private.